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while debugging this >> http://forums.solydxk.nl/viewtopic.php? ... 411#p31775 i found out that gdebi-kde is not working.
the usual way of using it (click or double-click a deb file) produces initial feedback in the panel, gdebi's interface never appears and after some seconds *nada*

zerozero wrote:i found out that gdebi-kde is not working.
the usual way of using it (click or double-click a deb file) produces initial feedback in the panel, gdebi's interface never appears and after some seconds *nada*
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anyone else sees this?
and:
does it also happens in SolydX?

Ditto for SolydX, while trying to install qt4-fsarchiver and CoolReader3, gdebi gui appears very briefly, maybe a second or so, then crash, abracadabra, disappears in a puff of smoke...

If I try to mark gdebi and gdebi-core for upgrading in synaptic, it tells me it can't do that because gdebi wants gdebi-core 0.9.4 and 0.9.4+solydxk1 is to be installed. Me thinks gdebi's Depends line needs a >= instead of a =.

One item in the 2014.04.15 set needs another update: solydxk-flashplugin-11 claims to be the newest at 11.2.202.341. However, last February a security update was released bringing the current version to 11.2.202.346.

I just got an update of the Update Manager. The problem is, it ignores the sources preferences file and presents updates coming from unstable, which it shouldn't do. Synaptic and dist-upgrade show zero updates, as they should, but update manager wants, for example, to upgrade libgles2-mesa 10.1.0-4 (testing) to 10.1.0-5 (unstable)

I cannot only use apt-show-versions because it only uses the local cache (see http://forums.solydxk.nl/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=3411). Aptitude search does give a better list, but obviously disregards the preferences file. I then have to cross link that list with apt-show-versions to get all version numbers.

If you, or anybody else do know a better way to get a list with upgradable packages, their current version, and new version, I'd really appreciate that.

Ok, i found the cause of this. If a packet from unstable is already installed, then it will appear as upgradeable. If it is not installed, it will not show up at all. Still, i do not know how dist-upgrade and synaptic manage to solve this.

The question is when and why i installed these things from unstable I need to make a clean install for testing the new UP or all the testing and its results are useless if i have these packages from unstable.

will look for upgrades only in the specific repositories. Perhaps Synaptic and dist-upgrade do something like this. A suggestion would be to use something like this and add a switch to UM to choose between production and testing repositories. it will not show however updates from other repositories people have added.